^ Same here. I'd like to say I've heard it said somewhere, and I'm basing it off that, but I haven't listened to any audios of the books, so it must be from a video game. Maybe Empire At War?_________________I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it (or even read all of it). These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:45 am

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Arawn_FennKnight

Joined: 07 Apr 2011Posts: 239Location: Damn you Shonda Rhimes!!!

As someone else said, I'd avoid looking to the audiobooks for official pronunciation. Many years ago I listened to part of the audiobook for one of the Thrawn books, and the pronunciation was a complete disaster._________________Hir yw'r dydd a hir yw'r nos, a hir yw aros Arawn.

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:16 am

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BalooPadawan

Joined: 29 Sep 2011Posts: 71

Xizor is pronounced "She-Zor" right? I just started reading Shadows of the Empire and the book tells you that Xizor's chair robot pronounces his name that way.

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:40 pm

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ReepicheepMaster

Joined: 05 Feb 2008Posts: 7121Location: Sailing into the unknown

It is pronounced She-Zor, yes.

I used to pronounce it Zi-Sore._________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

I say Zie-zor. This is because I got the impression that She-zor was incorrect from the book. Apparently the chair merely elongated the first syllable. That Xizor was quite nit-picky, wasn't he? You'd think that, after becoming the head of the galaxy's largest criminal organisation, he'd learn to chill out a bit ..._________________I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it (or even read all of it). These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:26 am

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DannikJerrikoEUC Staff

Joined: 09 Nov 2011Posts: 1236Location: Nirn

Life Is The Path wrote:

I say Zie-zor.

Same._________________There's always a bigger fish - Qui Gon Jinn.

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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:47 am

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Jedi JoeMaster

Joined: 11 Jun 2009Posts: 1597

DannikJerriko wrote:

Life Is The Path wrote:

I say Zie-zor.

Same.

Yea that's what I envisioned his name sounding like when I read SotE.

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:41 pm

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Lord Ree'diusMaster

Joined: 11 Apr 2011Posts: 700Location: The Unknown Regions

Life Is The Path wrote:

... You'd think that, after becoming the head of the galaxy's largest criminal organisation, he'd learn to chill out a bit ...

Or did he become the head of the galaxy's largest criminal organisation by never chilling out? That's the question _________________"Strong you are with the dark side, young one. But not that strong.
Still much to learn, you have. Surrender, you should."

"You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."

I pronounce it by taking makemake as the template: swoh-keh-swoh-kes._________________I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it (or even read all of it). These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:48 am

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Darth SkuldrenModerator

Joined: 04 Feb 2008Posts: 6658Location: Missouri

I say it sorta like you would say spokes as in the the spokes on a bicycle tire, but with the swo instead of spo._________________
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:00 pm

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Taral-DLOSMaster

Joined: 23 Nov 2010Posts: 1810Location: Ontario, Canada

re Xizor: the first time I ever learned about him was when Shadows of the Empire first came out. I wasn't into Star Wars books or comics yet. They pronounced it SHEE-Zor on the TV spots for the toy line. So that's the way I always pronounced it._________________"I'm...from Earth."

Linguistically, at least in this galaxy, an apostrophe in the middle of a word (that's not used grammatically as an indication of plurality (like in Dutch) or possession (like in English)) is often used to designate a stop, pause, or a separation of syllables. Sometimes it's just part of the word; sometimes it references letters that have been removed from the word. So, I've generally used that as a guide in pronunciation of names, etc.

The easiest example I can think of off the top of my head is Ta'a Chume. The apostrophe in this case would give the first word double syllables: Tah-ah, instead of Tah (or Tay, if you follow the "official" Daala pruonunciation).

There's also some precedent for this in the Star Wars galaxy, at least in Mando'a, if you follow the official grammatical rules that Traviss made up for Lucasfilm.